The Milwaukie Poetry Series
Seventeenth Season!
A Reading by John Daniel
In person at the Ledding Library in Milwaukie and Livestreamed on the
Ledding Library YouTube Channel

Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 6:00 PM

The Milwaukie Poetry Series is delighted to continue our Seventeenth Season
with a reading by John Daniel on Wednesday, January 10, 2024. His reading will
be in the Community Room at the Ledding Library of Milwaukie at 10660 SE Main St. In
Milwaukie, OR 97222 at 6 PM. It will also be livestreamed on the Ledding Library
YouTube Channel. The reading will then be available for viewing on demand on the
Ledding Library YouTube Channel.

John Daniel is the author of eleven books of poetry, essays, memoir, and fiction.
His most recent are Lighted Distances: Four Seasons on Goodlow Rim, a book of poetry
published in April 2023, and Gifted, a novel set in rural western Oregon. A former Wallace
Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, Daniel has taught creative writing at
colleges and universities across the country. His books have won three Oregon Book
Awards, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and a fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts. He lives in the Coast Range foothills west of Eugene, Oregon,
and at times over the mountains in juniper and ponderosa pine country east of Bonanza,
where Lighted Distances found voice. You can learn more about him by contacting him
at 541-935-5507 or johndaniel48@yahoo.com or www.johndaniel-author.net.

Come to the reading in-person. If you’re not able to do that and want to hear it,
register on our website at https://milwaukiepoetryseries.com or with Tom Hogan
at tomhogan2@comcast.net You’ll receive a link for the event.

A huge thanks to the City of Milwaukie, the Ledding Library, the Willamette Falls Media
Center and to all the volunteers who make this reading possible.

For information or questions about the readings or to join the group list, please contact
the Series Coordinator Tom Hogan at 503.819.8367 or tomhogan2@comcast.net. Thank
you for your support and take care.